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F. H. RICHARDS.

BUTTON FASTBNER ROD.

No. 329,953. Patented Nov. 10, 1885.

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BUTTON-FASTENER ROD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,953, dated November10, 1885.

Application filed April 25, 1885. SeriulNo.163. l85. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown thatI, FRANCIS H. RICHARDS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden, State of Mas- 5sachusetts,have invented certain new and useful Improvements inButton-Fastener Rods,of which the following is a specification,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a partthereof, in which Figure 1 is a side view of a button-fastener rodembodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of said rod. Fig. 3 is aperspective view of the same. Fig. 4 shows two views of a singlefastener like those composing said rod.

Similar characters designate the same parts in all the views.

This invention relates to improvements in rods adapted to be fed tobutton-setting machines, there to be divided into button-fast- 20 enersas required.

The principal object of my invention is to furnish such a rod vshichshall be easily divided into separate button-fasteners, and which shallrender unnecessary the employment of z 5 button-fastener packing-eases.v

To this end the invention consists in the novel features hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

In the drawings a single button-fastener of 0 the kind shown anddescribedin United States Patent No. 314,684, dated March 31, 1885, isshown in side and edge view in Fig. 4.

In manufacturing my improved rod I take a quantity of those or similarbutton-fasteners, a a, and placing them side by side, as in 5 Fig. 1,unite them into a red by means of some suitable adhesive substance, thenor previously applied to their surfaces. This adhesive substance may bemetallic, as tin or solder, or non-metallic, as shellac or other gum.4.. If metal or alloy is used, the fasteners may first be covered with athin coating of the metal, and then heated sufficiently to melt it andcause them to stick together into a solid mass. Gum or other suitablenon-metallic 43 material may be applied in substantially the same mannerby the appliances ordinarily employed for performing similar operationsin other arts.

It should be understood that solder or alloy 5, or other adhesivematerial used should have but slight tenacity, so that the fasteners maybe readily separated as they are wanted for use by the driver of abuttonfastener-setting machine.

Having thus described my invention,I claim as new and therefore desireto secure by Let ters Patent of the United States- As a new article ofmanufacture, the im proved button-fastener rod herein described itconsisting in button-fasteners united by ar adhesive substance,substantially as set fort FRANCIS H. RICHARDS.

Witnesses:

G. O. PALMER, R. L. PEOK.

